ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,064, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MICROJET TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Range hood" was invented by Hao-Jan Mou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Chuan Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Feng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Lung Han (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A range hood is disclosed and includes a main body, an air guiding fan, a filtering component, and a controller. The main body is configured to form an airflow path. The air guiding fan is disposed in the airflow path and is operated to guide an air convection with an extraction rate over 22 m3/min. The filtering component is disposed in the airflow path and ...